American Federation of Teachers

News about American Federation of Teachers, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 12, 2015

American Federation of Teachers gives Hillary Rodham Clinton early endorsement for president, boosting her pro-labor credentials just as she is set to deliver address on economy and plight of middle-class; federation leader Randi Weingarten is longtime supporter of Clinton. MORE

Aug. 31, 2014

Op-Ed article by Century Foundation fellows Richard D Kahlenberg and Halley Potter describes original vision of charter schools outlined by Albert Shanker, president of American Federation of Teachers; notes that Shanker sought to encourage social mobility for working-class children and social cohesion among America's increasingly diverse populations; maintains some charter schools have begun to follow Shanker's vision. MORE

Feb. 14, 2013

National Federation of Nurses will announce it is affiliating with American Federation of Teachers; expects to gain more political clout and money by move. MORE

Jun. 19, 2012

American Federation of Teachers joins with the British publisher TSL Education to create a Web site, called sharemylesson.com, which will allow teachers to share curriculum materials with each other for free; site is designed to help public school teachers who are struggling to carry out new national curriculum standards amid school budget cuts. MORE

Nov. 8, 2011

Joe Nocera Op-Ed column notes that veteran journalist and charter school proponent Steven Brill, author of Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools, has made peace with Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers; observes that school reformers and teachers' unions are beginning to realize they need to work together to help change the educational system. MORE

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Citing his long legislative record and improving performance in opinion polls, Senator Bernie Sanders told leaders of the union that he was best equipped to advance the rights and benefits of organized labor.

Mike Huckabee extended a hand to an unlikely audience on Wednesday: the leaders of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the umbrella organization of the labor movement.

The Seventy Four, a project created by Campbell Brown, a former CNN anchor who who supports overhauling the education system, will hold a Republican candidate forum in New Hampshire in August, and one for Democrats in Iowa in October.

In a Q. and A. with educators this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton said: “It is just dead wrong to make teachers the scapegoats for all of society’s problems. Where I come from, teachers are the solution.”